| >people from Brazil are hungry and the country must grow to make the lives of all the human beings there good. Poor Brazilians, today, eat better than middle class Americans. Basic conditions have been improving considerably since the center-left took power. The neo-liberal right has swung back into power recently and we've been seeing things worsen in lockstep with their re-ascension. Don't listen to this guy. Building these dams does nothing to improve general welfare. It doesn't make energy cheaper. Energy prices continue to rise dramatically. Furthermore BNDES is funding these projects at 6% NEGATIVE interest. 20bi at 6% is a lot of money. How are these projects supposed to help anyone other than BNP, Alcoa, Camargo Corrêa, and Odebrecht?? >If those who complain about it would go to Brazil and try to live a middle-class life there with a job in shitty conditions going through a crisis every decade, always feeling things aren't stable enough to make a living. I am a US citizen, who has been living in Brazil continuously for 10 years. I've made 200 a month and 10000 a month. Right now I live just fine with a wife and kid on R$2000-3000 per month, in Sao Paulo. Brazil is not impoverished like it was in the nineties. The main problem today financial irresponsibility. Decades of inflation and an endemic infatuation with American Consumer Culture has bred a system of financial priorities that run contrary to what is considered correct in many other countries. >Perhaps living in a big city, taking 2-3 hours to go to work, then 2-3 hours to go back, I've bet that they wouldn't care too much about Amazon I have spent 6-7 hours in daily commute. It did not affect my concern for corruption, unjust appropriation of traditional lands, or deforestation. I continued caring. This is a question of education and contact with nature, not money. Brazilian has an unfortunate hertiage of institutionalized domination. It was one of the most effective mass-misinformation apparatii in the world. I am appalled by the behavior of the traditional ruling elite and their shameless pandering to Europe and the US. They have been selling off water, oil, land, and mineral rights to multinational interests for pennies on the dollar for centuries. To this day it continues as the default business practice. |
If you are an American living in Brazil, you didn't see too much of how it's to to be born there in a very poor family suffering all kinds of abuse as in less developed regions you barely got light or proper education. I didn't live exactly like this, but I too come from a poor background and could see this happening across the street. Many teachers on those regions barely got any education and it's hard to get smart people to move to those regions. There isn't much opportunity there. Things has been improving over time, but we need more than a century to get where other more developed regions(such as Sao Paulo) is right now.
Actually, it's so problematic that for instance, a big percentage of my circle, the one who had opportunities and took them, moved abroad, as soon as they could(like I did). The ones who end up staying in the country are the ones in need, that can't leave because they are stuck there, and the riches, which need to stay there because of their businesses. You do learn about brain drain there at school and it's a common topic, but given all the other big problems, it's not often talked about in the media.
Of course that there is a lot of people who enjoy living there, I did a lot too, but it's only possible if you don't get caught with the amount of shit happening right now. I don't have much intentions of coming back right now, but would definitely would like to help it once I'm in a certain life stage I can afford moving there to change things, so like many other Brazilians who move abroad.
BTW, it isn't the ruling elite that give out the good stuff there for free to other countries, it's actually our inability to get good trade deals, just because we are the bitches of the first-world, we take care of our forests to them, meanwhile we get nothing. My point is that if they want to pay cents for our bananas, sure, we still sell them, but we don't give a single fuck for whatever they say and instead focus on developing our country.